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Myrlie Evers-Williams

Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, listens as her daughter Reena Evers-Everette announces events commemorating the 50th anniversary of his assassination during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Medgar Evers remembered 50 years after death

Laura Tillman, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed by a white supremacist outside his Jackson, Miss., home in 1963, laments that her husband is remembered primarily as an assassination victim...
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority celebrates 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy NBC Washington)

Delta Sigma Theta celebrates 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage

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theGRIO REPORT - The Delta Sigma Theta sorority gathered to march along the national mall today, marking the 100th anniversary of a march to help women get the right to vote.
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In this combination of file photos, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at a peace rally in New York on April 15, 1967, left, and President Barack Obama speaks at an election night party in Chicago after winning a second term in office on Nov. 7, 2012. Inauguration Day coincides with the King holiday, marking what some say is an inextricable tie between the nation's first black president and the civil rights movement. Obama plans to incorporate the legacy of that movement into his inauguration. (AP Photo, File)

Inauguration Day has rare intersection with MLK

Kate Brumback, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) - President Barack Obama plans to use a Bible that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he takes his oath of office on the holiday honoring the slain icon...
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Activist Myrlie Evers-Williams attends the premiere of DreamWorks Pictures' 'The Help' held at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Samuel Goldwyn Theater on August 9, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

Obama taps Medgar Evers' widow for invocation

Marquise Francis
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama has picked Myrlie Evers-Williams to deliver the invocation at his second inauguration later this month, according to the Washington Post...
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